IOS-XR XRv

Hi,

I am glad to see the interest in XRv which can be thought of asd the next-gen XR4U. XRv's first release is 4.3.2 as you have seen, but this is a limited availability release. Below is some general information, but please do contact your Cisco account team for more information.

IOS XRv is a Virtual Machine running the IOS-XR operating system. The VM combines Route-Processor and Line-card functionality in a single image, offering full control-plane and management plane capabilities as contained in the regular IOS XR operating system. Release 4.3.2 will only offer vRR version with limited availability, no Demo and Simulator offering.

With XRv we are planning three types of images: demo, simulation, and production. The differences in the images have to do with the data plane rate limits and licensing needed.

There are 3 main use cases for IOS XRv:

XR familiarization and education (Demo version will NOT be offered in Release 4.3.2)

Configuration staging and testing- Network Modeling (Simulator version will NOT be offered in Release 4.3.2)

vRR: virtual router production use cases, starting with vRR (Route Reflector is the only version in Release 4.3.2)

Re: IOS-XR XRv

I'm one of the XRv development leads. As has been mentioned on this thread already, Cisco IOS XR 5.1.1 software is *LIVE on CCO*.

This includes over 100 new feature offerings supported across multiple platforms including new platform support for XRv.

I've been collecting customer 5.1.1 links for XRv, and it's growing so I may add more (there are some minor changes to the release notes and the data sheet to come - bear with us as we don't release new platforms - even virtual ones - too often). Note that the demo image is free to use and the download works. The production images require the correct PIDs (I'll post more on this later).

I hope this product is useful, and we'll have many more features to come in future releases (HA for example...).

IOS-XR XRv

Hi,

I am glad to see the interest in XRv which can be thought of asd the next-gen XR4U. XRv's first release is 4.3.2 as you have seen, but this is a limited availability release. Below is some general information, but please do contact your Cisco account team for more information.

IOS XRv is a Virtual Machine running the IOS-XR operating system. The VM combines Route-Processor and Line-card functionality in a single image, offering full control-plane and management plane capabilities as contained in the regular IOS XR operating system. Release 4.3.2 will only offer vRR version with limited availability, no Demo and Simulator offering.

With XRv we are planning three types of images: demo, simulation, and production. The differences in the images have to do with the data plane rate limits and licensing needed.

There are 3 main use cases for IOS XRv:

XR familiarization and education (Demo version will NOT be offered in Release 4.3.2)

Configuration staging and testing- Network Modeling (Simulator version will NOT be offered in Release 4.3.2)

vRR: virtual router production use cases, starting with vRR (Route Reflector is the only version in Release 4.3.2)

IOS-XR XRv

Hello,

As Sam's first reply, the main Production use case of XRv is that of a Route Reflector and hence the reason of its file naming. (As you well said it can do much more than just RR but on a production environment that is what is mainly supported, for XR familiarization and configuration staging you can play with the wide variety of features it has)

IOS-XR XRv

Hi Amir,

What hypervisor are you using your laptop? If you are using VMware, verify in the .vmx file that all of the interface are set to E1000. I have 8 interfaces up and running on my Mac using VMware Fusion.

Hi Samir, Are you asking

Are you asking whether it is possible connecting it to another XRv VM running on your Mac? If so the answer is yes. These two VMs share the same virtual interfaces and can communicate through those.

If you were referring to having the XRv instance running on your Mac connecting to a physical device outside of your Mac, the answer is also yes. You would need to configure the XRv VM with a bridge interface to let it communicate with devices sitting outside of you Mac.

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